Library and Information Science

To collect information to the development of information system in psychology, an analysis of 393 papers by Japanese psychological researchers published in overseas journals was conducted. These 393 papers were sampled from PA, which were published on 126 journals in the related fields of psychology in 1979, 1980, 1981.

The analyses included researcher’s affiliation published on the psychological journals, evaluation of these journals, and relation between the numbers of papers published in the Japanese Psychological Association’s members in each subfield.

The result implies that 97 (2.4%) of Japanese psychological researchers were most productive and almost all of these researchers belong to famous universities in Japan. 34 of 40 psychological journals were published in U. S. and 4 were published in U. K. These journals were distributed from famous and important ones to not so important ones. Most 1300(32.7%) members of Japanese Psychological Association belong to the subfield of perception, physiology, thinking and learning, and 243 (61.8%) papers were published in this subfield.